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Beef Riot

In January 1931, during the Great Depression, more than 1000 unemployed men clashed with police in protest at the replacement…

Great Depression, protest, work

1930s
Charles Cameron Kingston Memorial

A remarkable and feisty South Australian attorney-general and premier, a father of federation and the first Australian Minster for Trade and…

statue

class, divorce, duel, football, work

1850s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Mary Lee bust

‘My aim is to leave the world better for women’ – Mary Lee was an activist, suffragist and unionist

bust

bust, sculpture, union, wages, women, work

1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1990s
Women’s Work Depot

The Women’s Work Depot sprang out of a First World War business, theTrench Comforts Shop, reforming in 1920 to sell…

cooperative

women, work, WWI

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, early twentieth century

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Armistice Day 1918

Armistice Day 1918

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Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

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Bay to Birdwood

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First World War

First World War

The tragedy of war was compounded by disturbance on the homefront in wartime and post-war reconstruction activities.

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